Summer to fall garden changeover
At
this time of year, everything in the garden feels like a bonus.
Since I don't care enough to start my peppers inside, we usually only
have a couple of weeks of sweet peppers, but this year we've already
frozen over half a gallon. Despite the blight, our tomatoes keep
producing, and my succession planting means that our summer squash are loaded with
fruits.
This week alone, we've
put away three quarts of summer squash, two quarts of vegetable soup, a
quart of ketchup, 1.5 quarts of green beans, a quart of swiss chard,
and 1.5 quarts of stewed tomatoes. Meanwhile, we're scarfing down
cucumbers and fall raspberries, huge heads of broccoli, and the first
few snow peas. Just like the spring to summer changeover, the
summer to fall changeover is a time of tremendous bounty, and we're
enjoying every minute.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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